Unmanned cameras have always made me uncomfortable, but it took having my son’s wifi capable baby monitor being hacked for me to seriously consider the access lenses have to our lives. Curious to understand what knowledges surveillers could glean from the lenses that abundantly fill every space that I occupy, I decided to run a basic algorithm on my personal device. For a 24 hour period I set my phone to capture images from the front and back cameras in 20 minute intervals. The results were astonishing.

My art practice, which hangs its hat on the endless pursuit of access to knowledge temporary imploded the moment I discovered I was the target of an inquiry.

Tape, the tool that litters my studio serving to hold various sets of ideas in place long enough to be considered soon thereafter became my only sense of privacy.

The photographs included in this series were captured from the now taped lenses of my iPhone 6 in 20 minute intervals over the course of 4 days. As lint and grime built over the days the tape loss its tack allowing more information to fill the frame. In time new tape needed be applied in order to adequately deny access.​The paintings included in /tāp/ǝare in response to the process of applying, removing and reapplying tape to lenses over time.